I am a truck driver in Denmark, 2 years ago I ran into a "mature couple" who were on holiday in their motorhome. While I was stretching my legs, the lady came over to me and asked: "Hi we are Americans, we are looking for the ferry to Legoland, do you know where it departs from and what currency they use there?" I tried to explain to them that there are no ferries to Legoland, but the lady cut me off... "noo no no. you don't understand, we're going to Lego country, it's a country, so that's why we're going by ferry.!" -once again I tried to explain, "Legoland" is not a country.. and then I could talk to her hand, "yeah right, what do you know, you're just a truck driver.." she finished and left. (for the record, I should probably mention that "Legoland" is an entertainment park located in the city of Billund, in Denmark. in the style of disneyland, just built from lego blocks. ) but hey, what do I know, I'm just a truck driver... who happens to have grown up... in Billund.
An American once told me that Americans hate Europeans because we didn't warn them about 9/11. I asked how we should've warned them and he started to explain timezones to me. It wasn't a joke at all.
Watch the movie *_"The Long Kiss Goodnight"_* ... it basically foreshadows the whole thing five years before it [SORT OF]: - "big boom" with "arab terrorists" - approximately 3-5000 dead - three-letter-agencies get more funding afterwards ...
The conversation I had with my boyfriend's part of the family who happens to be from US (he's half British half Danish, so I can only imagine the things he had to listen to...) Me: And then we went to Argentina, it was my first time there and it was so beautiful! His aunt#1: Argentina? Where is that? Me: oh, it's in South America. His aunt#2: what you mean? Next to Mississippi, or something? Never heard of an Argentina. Me: no, I mean the country. It's in South America, part of the continent. Aunt#1: what do you mean South America? Why do you talk like that? Me: oh, I mean the whole american continent. Like North America, Central America, South America, you know. Aunt#2: Central America????? I've never heard someone saying it like this Me: Yes, Central America, like Guatemala, Honduras... Aunt#1: You mean, Kansas, or Nebraska? Why you calling it the Central America? You know, I just smile and gave up and got up to take some casseroles. Imagine the confusion in their faces when they realize I'm from Brazil and that's also in America...
Technically North and South America are separate continents and Central America is just part of the North American continent but the USA barely tolerates Mexico as part of North America, further south is far to Spanish speaking for their comfort.
@@mormacil but in south america there are countries that speak dutch, english, french and portuguese as the official language and two of them are still part of europe.
I worked in adventure tourism in New Zealand. We actually kept a logbook of dumb things Americans said. Like "What time does the 10am tour depart?" "How long is the three hour trip?" or best yet, on an adventure cave trip, "Our caves in the USA are darker than this." I said, "Turn off your light!" Pause, and "Oh yeah!"
Visiting Warwick Castle (UK), and queuing to visit the dungeons. It is tight corridor when people had to take it in turns to walk along the corridor to go in and come out. There was a middle-aged American couple next in line to go in and he exclaimed “you’d have thought they’d know how popular the dungeons would be, so the contractors could have made the entrance a decent size”. I had to tell him Warwick Castle was a real castle (built 1068), not a purpose built tourist attraction.
To be fair, the builders at Warwick Castle back in the 11th century probably had roughly the same labour rights and protections, including sick leave and paid time off, as many US workers today.
Yea, Warwick Castle, built by Angles and Saxons, but designed by Norman's. Let's see these 'Americans' (excluding Canadians and all south and inclusive of Mexico), get their heads round that.
As Italian... while playing online with a U.S. guy he told me literaly " u are from a 3rd world country without any colture ". In that moment i saw in my mind the David of Michelangelo crying
I got to witness a small group of US Americans during the pandemic when masks at airports and in planes were mandatory in most of Europe. Several of them decided they needed to take off their masks at the gate, waiting for a flight from Frankfurt to Dublin. They were very politely asked to put them on by other passengers who were not very politely told to go away. They were politely asked by staff to put them on to which two people responded that "asking us to put on masks violates their first amendment rights" (which a) is total bollocks and b) would not matter because they were not in the USA). When told that the US constitution doesn't apply in Germany the response was "the first amendment is international". This did, of course, hold up everything, since they were not allowed to board without masks. The police had to show up and, also politely, no weapons brandished, no force exercised, no threats made, told them that if they insist on behaving like this, they would not be allowed on the plane and would need to be escorted away from the gate. The reaction to this was, predictably, that one of them said "Germany is still a Nazi country, Hitler would be proud". I should add that several other people from USA who were not part of that group very vocally told them to shut the f up, repeatedly. In the end, they were led away (I have no idea what, if any, charges were levelled against them), which caused a severe delay, as their luggage had to be taken off. The ENTIRE exchange was so absolutely, ridiculously stupid it still angers me.
I (from Austria) was studying in the US (St Louis). I was sitting in my dorm (on my high-end gaming computer, mind you) and a class mate, who was over, asked me how i enjoyed all the technology here in the US. Like, electricity, internet and so on. I looked him in the eye and told him: Well, I had to ride a donkey to Germany, because we dont have electricity/cars in Austria. The plane ride to the US was amazing. I love being able to read at night and so on. He thought I was serious. I was doing my masters in finance (so was he). He then asked me what language was my mother tongue (German). Then he asked me whether Hitler was still our "president". I told him "yes". He was content with my answer and didnt ask further questions. I was dumbfounded. But i had a lot of fun messing with that guy^^ (he was from texas)
The majority were actually in Germany. Basically one in most neighboring countries, with Poland being the exception with about half a dozen, including the single most infamous one of Auschwitz. But yeah, Dachau is probably the second most infamous, and it was in Germany.
@@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682 Bergen Belsen? Neuengamme? Buchenwald? Lots of concentration camps in Germany next to Dachau. That Swiss guy was at least as stupid as Shanon and he had a proper European education.....
I love your response to the US Geography teaching about Canadians having sleds.... "That was a long time ago.... that stuff doesn't happen now.." and the look of desperation on your face... hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😂
as a canadian i am not surprised that, that is probably a stereotype just shocked a geography teacher would be too lazy to learn that, that is one of the most untrue stereotypes lol
I have one of these. I was recently sat by the river in the city of York in England and got chatting with an American tourist. He was interested in the river and finally he asked me, "Doesn't this river flow into the sea then?" Well yes it does. It's sort of a river thing. It's what they do. When I affirmed that the river did indeed flow to the sea he looked puzzled and hooked a thumb over his shoulder. "But I thought the sea was in that direction." I just looked at him and said "We live on an island. Every direction is towards the sea."
Aussie here. As a teen (15/16/17) after school I would hang out with friends at a train/bus station that was located near shipping port dock (in a somewhat touristy town). Every so often US navy ships dock there for a few days so there would American sailors wandering around. One afternoon I'm with my friends & a couple sailors walk past us & we hear them say something along the lines of "I'm actually so surprised how well these people speak english" Oh we laughed so hard.
@@esaedvik In the town where we were in with all the substance abuse that was going on it wouldn't surprise me :p They probably had some interesting rides on the train to cbd too.
I was speaking to two middle aged American tourists in Penang Malaysia and they said they could trace their ancestors back to the Mayflower. I complemented them and the guy being so proud said, and how far back can you trace your family? When I said 594... He said you've missed out the 1 as in 1594! Luckily I had tablet with me, so I pulled up the Scottish Ancestry side clicked on my family name and up popped the full history of my family including the Crest & Tartan!!! They couldn't get their heads round that history goes back further than the foundation of America.
Many American's think that "European history" or "global history" ended when "American history" started. It's just so stupid that I can't put it in words. "American history" is so young that we have outhouses that are older, in Europe.
@@OriginalPuro Yeah, I once told an American colleague that my home village was the youngest in my county and he was in a bit of disbelief when I then answered "when was it founded?" with "1711". Our local football (soccer) club is older than his home town, so is the house I grew up in (both from the 1910s). He could not wrap his head around 300 years being a fairly new village / town and a 100 years being nothing special for a sports club or a residential building.
@@timolynch149 The building I live in, Scotland, is several centuries old. There is a grave marker in the church yard next to it which is from the battle of Falkirk 1298 (this battle features in the movie Braveheart) and my family name is older than that, it's older than surnames. Its often the case were I have to explain these things to Americans who think America invented the world.
@@TheJpf79 I've been to so many countries in Europe, but really haven't had the time to plan a trip to England in general, but I would love to visit Edinburgh, it's so old and beautiful, and so wonderfully kept, I actually have family living in Edinburgh, I'll take the time to go and visit. PS: sorry for any mistake, english in not my first language
Just from today: "I don't think Ukraine is a part of Geneva Convention." Context: Ukraine signed and ratified Geneva Convention and every single one of its protocols. The US did not.
They _can't_ sign every one, or they'd lose the main means to maintain the border between North and South Korea (landmines)... As much as I love bashing the USA for stuff like that, it's a _little_ more complex in a few cases here and there 🙃
@@Wolf-ln1ml Naturally. I'm sure landmines are the reason why they didn't ratify Protocol I, which forbids indiscriminate attacks against civilian populations, nuclear installations and conscription of children. And South Korea is most certainly why they didn't ratify Protocol II, which deals with protection of civilians during *civil* wars. Much as I hate bashing the USA for the sake of it, read up before you talk about complexity.
@@elevenm.a.1125 I never said that they actually have some reason for every one they didn't sign. Hell, I don't even think the landmine border in Korea is a _good_ reason to not sign the Anti-Personnel Land Mines Convention, I just think it's an _understandable_ reason for them to not sign it. Kind of like looking at the apparently flat horizon is an _understandable_ reason to conclude that the Earth is flat, but it's not a _good_ reason.
@@HailHeidi The USA is in the habit of not supporting or signing international agreements that have to do with war crimes and / or recognise international courts. I find it ironic, for instance, when members of the current or previous US administrations want war criminals tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (full disclosure: The people they want prosecuted SHOULD be, they really are war criminals and the likes), but yet the USA refuse to recognise the authority of the court when it comes to their own citizens. In other word, if a Russian or Serbian or Iranian etc soldier commits war crimes, The Hague should prosecute them (again: I think that is prudent - War crimes should be adjudicated by an international tribunal, not by whoever wins the war). If a US soldier commits a war crime, he gets tried in the USA, if at all, and can then even be pardoned by a US president to score political points. One law for thee, one law for me.
I recently helped an American with translation issues at my hotel in Tokyo and in the lift afterwards he first said 'you don't look Japanese' and I explained to him that I was from Australia. To which he asks if I drove or flew to Japan. I took the piss of course, told him I drove and that it takes about 18 hours if you get good traffic over the Pacific and if the waves aren't too rough. He completely believed me. The poor Japanese girl in the lift was giggling like mad 😂😂
As a former petty officier of the french navy I was asked proudly by an Harvard graduated man if we had fridge in France so I suggested him to sue Harvard not to be able to teach that a Kiddengarden kid in France is aware of that in the USA
1991, US exchange students came to my high school. One of them, his parents being a physician and a teacher stayed with my best friend's parents. He was gobsmacked when he saw cars, especially Mercedeses and BMWs, everywhere. And yes, when he entered my buddies kitchen he loudly exclaimed that he didn't know we had fridges in Europe.
@@MrApocalyptica83 Yeah, lol, although in my experience the US school system does not usually try to give a broad education, but rather a specialised one (not to mention the very Anglo-sphere tendency to train you how to pass tests, not to train you for life after school - more people graduating with degrees, better for the schools stats, more people want to go there and spend money). I have met graduates from Princeton, Harvard, CalTech, MIT.. awesome in their fields but routinely ignorant of anything slightly removed.
@@timolynch149 sure but if their education fee were like in Europe mostly free i could accept the fact that they can ignore some things outside of their country but with a semester at 51000 us dollar in HAVARD it's unacceptable to not prepare their students to meet people from foreign country and that lead to those joke that USA citizen don't understand that when American guy left Europe to go back to states he say i go back to the work that my dad answered i go back to civilization when he was coming back from the us lol
@@MrApocalyptica83 That's the miracle of unfettered capitalism, friend: If everything is for profit and little is regulated, you will end up with expensive healthcare that doesn't keep most people healthy and expensive education that makes sure you will be a good lawyer, but you may well think the earth is flat. I grew up in Germany and live in Ireland, I have traveled a lot during my life and I am quite grateful for the fact that I was able to get a good education without my parents bankrupting themselves or me being saddled with debts until I retire. I'm grateful that when I got very ill, I was able to get treated without having to fear I would end up broke and homeless.
I work in a hotel in Canada and so often Americans will be like "can you break a $100 bill for me?" and I will be like "of course!" and then they'll hand me an American $100 bill and I'll go "oh, I'm sorry, I can break this but you'll be receiving Canadian dollars" and they'll be like "no, I want it in American" and I'll be like "then you'll have to go down the hall to the currency exchange. we don't have American cash on hand" and they'll either yell at me for not being a bank OR go "fine give me the fucking monopoly money" this convo happens SO OFTEN and I can't believe it's real every time it happens and I'm the one experiencing it 😑
When American woman asked me where I was from, I replied "Serbia", she responded "omg I love your tigers". She thought I meant Siberia. Also had a few interactions with Americans thinking I said Syria. Apparently we don't exist.
@@HailHeidiyeah thinking Tht in 1992-93-94 ușa and nato tropos atacked Serbia and destroy the entire country me being roumanian neat to ther border with Serbia i Heard all the time how ușa bombing Serbian civilians and even a bad thing they bombed an entire train of civilians train în 1993 a ușa army plutoons with arms he got into Roumanian Trains and they go stopped for 10 days because the sergeat was to entitled and he didnt present documents
I’m Australian and when I visited the states I had someone that I’d shared a room with (like a dorm room) ask me to say something in my language. I was so confused, laughed awkwardly and just “I don’t know, g’day mate?”
As a Dane travelling a lot in USA I have heard a lot of stupid things but 1st prize was once in New Orleans, my wife and I was on a guided walk in Garden District. Outside a certain house our guide told us that this house from right before the civil war was built by a rich merchant for his daughter and her husband as it was difficult to get a place to live. An American guy told us that it was still difficult at least in San Francisco, so he was thinking of buying a place for his son. We told him that for the same reason we were sbout to buy an appartment back in Copenhagen for our daughter and we chatted a bit a out that until we were interrupted by a woman, late thirties, who exclaimed that she didn't understand our problem, because "In Europe three generations livedbin the dame room!"
*having moved out at 19 and living alone since then * ... ohhhh I know what they mean!!! There is me! And then there are my three cats! Because two of them are a bit older and the third is pretty young that would be: First generation = me (37 years) Second generation = my two senior cats (15 years old) Third generation = the little one (3 years old) Right? 😂😂😂😂😂
I am from Germany and it is common for young people to go a bit abroad here. So when we were in the Oberstufe which in the US equals college, some people went to the US for an Au-pair year. And a lot came back telling us that they got actively approached by random US Americans saying to them: "Oh you come from Germany? Oh it must be so bad living under Hitler!" I could not believe it but it was told by a lot of fellow Germans to me. When I was in school in those days, it was the year 2002 and for all not knowing: Hitler blowed his head away in his bunker in Berlin on the 30th of April 1945. So when my classmates went to the US, Hitler was thankfully dead for 57 years. So no, none of us thankfully had to live under him. But that people of a nation who took such a crucial part in overthrowing the very man with their own army did not know that he was dead, I can't believe to this very day, although it is apparently true.
3:15 Nope, that is a thing. It's the stronger version of US americans being unable to locate any country - including the USA - on a map. Or at least name the continents correctly. 8:50 That wouldn't make any more sense either. US banks do serve non-US customers all the time, none of which has a US ID because they are not from the USA. If I as a German move to the USA I have to open a bank account at a US bank in most areas - and my German passport (or my German photo ID card) are perfectly viable for that. Same with the earlier case of buying alcohol btw - you don't need a US ID to buy alcohol in the USA, you need a valid ID which can also be a passport from another country if you happen to be from elsewhere. 11:20 I don't think so. I've met so many US americans that ask me if I as a German speak German. And they're not joking, it is completely alien to them that people from other countries might actually speak their native language instead of English. This sometimes gets really ridiculous when they can't believe that people from England speak English. Side note: English is not even the official language of the USA - The USA don't have any official language at all. My personal dumbest US american moment: I was chatting with a girl from LA and she asked me if we have Internet in Germany. While chatting with me over the internet.
Maybe it is due to that whole heritage thing. Like, when you say you are German they think "Oh, so his great-great-grandfather had Sauerkraut once, got it." and if that is the case, it is understandable, that they have to ask whether you can speak German.
I found your most recent video in this series first and followed your reactions backwards. I love how you progressed from disbelief and denial, to sceptical astonishment, to acceptance, and finally finding it as funny as the rest of us out here in the world beyond the USA. Good job, well done, I look forward to seeing more of you learning about the world beyond the USA.
I'm Belgian. Used to work in Bruges in a supermarket, it's an area with a lot of tourists. One time an American came up to the counter and asked a question (well, directions to the city center to be precise). He didn't understand why I could replay him in decent English. He actually started to argue with me that it was impossible that my English was so good because I'm Belgian. He was convinced that I was either a foreigner of that his earing was off. Weirdest conversation ever...
Ah yes. When I was in college (I'm Brazilian), I once worked as a liason receiving foreign exchange students and a american guy couldn't believe I was brazilian because my english was too good... I had so many weird, pointless discussions with that guy. I was amazed he was a Masters student!!
Gilles, most people don't know that in Flanders, Belgium all the foreign movies and TV series get subtitles. We and the Netherlands are the only countries in Europe that do that. It makes it that much easier to speak other languages.
@@svenguinee1072 being from holland, i still always wonder when games come out, that there are some many translations, dont they learn english in the rest of europe?, but now it slightly makes sense, as im used to just have the movie/game in english
Lol. I could remember a few years back. A white couple ask a family member of mine where are they from. Mexican living in chicago. They responded Texas. And they asked “well what about your parents,grandparents.” They kept answering Texas. They are the only cousin I know that can trace back their roots all the way back to when Mexico owned Texas. So yea.
I’m from Northeast England and met an American woman in Spain. She said to me “so your like Australian then” and I said “no I’m British, England specifically. She didn’t believe me and started laughing and thought I was joking. So when I frowning and saying no I was actually English. Then she started to get a bit angry saying I was making fun of her. She said I couldn’t be British because she didn’t think I had a British accent, and was convinced my accent was Australian. God knows what she thought a British accent was supposed to be. But I would hazard a guess at a Victorian cockney chimney sweep or one of the very Posh Received Pronunciation accents (which is actually more common in Scotland than England).
Nick: Lol the way I see it, we both have accents. We have a US American accent and they have a British accent, etc. I think everyone who speaks a language technically has an accent. That's how I understand it anyway! 😊
@@HailHeidi they say in the UK the accent changes every 5 miles. It’s pretty common for some people in the UK to not understand the accents in other parts of the UK. My wife was born 10 miles away from me, and moved to a town near the village I was born. She struggles occasionally when I say something in dialect. If you go 20 miles over the county line they start to pronounce words like look and book, to rhyme with Luke or Duke.
I speak with an American accent (sadly), and still American's claim that I am British because I am able to speak proper English. It's just called education. American's don't have much education apart from noah's ark and "core math"..
OK here's 1 that I've had we're in London England and am a white English man living here. Unfortunately, the full stereotype, and I meet this couple who look like they'd just retired and they complimented how great I can speak English. 1. You are in a country which has its language in its name 2. What language did you think we'd be speaking 3. What language do you speak if it's not English I was stunned and yet I said, 'it was easy we took English classes at school, and it only takes a year to pick it up.' and they believed me!
I life near an american airbase here in germany and when i was out at a nightclub where are americans too one man ask me why we have so many american cars like BMW and Merceds. WTF?!
As a Luxembourger myself, I totally feel for that Swizz-Luxembourgish dude… Every time I talked to an American, they always asked me either what state that is or where in Germany that is… Like… okay I get it we are only 650k people, but a founder state of the EU!
There was a comedy sketch show here in Belgium called "what if", and one of the sketches was "what if everyone had forgotten Luxemburg". It had a representative of Luxemburg showing up to some international meeting (possibly EU) with "Luxemburg" handwritten on a piece of paper to put on the desk in front of him. Nobody understanding who he was or where he was from. Even the Belgian guy on the table was confused, looked it up on his phone and found that Luxemburg is a Belgian province, then started to apologize to everyone that there was an extra Belgian dude there for no reason. Great sketch.
12:50 This guy just cracked me up laughing, seriously ! XD I knew american people could suck at geography sometimes, but that is just amazingly ridiculous 😆
It's not that they CAN suck at geography, it's that they DO suck at geography. Geography, history, maths, languages and so on, they all suck at it. Many people don't know countries outside of the US, many people can't do 3x3x3 and some people think that the US was founded in the 1990s.. American's aren't very smart, as an outsider I know more about American history, geography and society than many murricans.
Lol love your videos! I am from Michigan and moved to Florida for a while and a lot of stores wouldn't accept my id because they thought Michigan was in Canada and tried to tell me the upper peninsula of Michigan made it Canadian so all of Michigan was Canadian! So I tried to use simple logic! I questioned them about Detroit (Michigan) and then I informed them my city was near Detroit! They told me I didn't know anything because Canada is next to Detroit, which is accurate! They called the police on me saying I had a fake Id! I have lost all faith in our educational system!
Now that is worrying. You hear of foreigners commenting how Americans don't know much about other countries, but it seems they don't even know their own country.
I’m from Iceland, and I was on Omegle there was this American who asked me where I was from and I of course, said that was from Iceland. He deadass said to me (so You are from Canada) I tried to explain to him that Iceland is not part of Canada. Then you went on saying that Iceland is just a mythical place and it doesn’t exist and it’s part of Canada.
I've spent a few winters in the US, I found that Australians have many words for any particular thing where as Americans seem to only have one. It was a long time ago I purchased a stamp to mail a letter home from a Seven Eleven. I can't remember what the right word ended it ended up being but I wanted to know where a Post box was. I tried Letter Box, mail Box , Post Box I think in the end I just asked where I had to put the letter to get it mailed.
Hey Heidi! Loving your reactions xD. I am from Puerto Rico and in mid 2000s I had my first IT job in Florida. So I got in and I was a contractor, and my lead manager, my top contractor boss asks me, "Hey, you are from Puerto Rico, right?" And I said "Yeah! I moved from Puerto Rico, I lived there all my life and I moved here for work.". And then he goes..."Are you here on a green card?" And I was like..."No I didn't come on a green card. Puerto Rico is a US terrirory so...everyone in Puerto Rico is American." He goes..."Oh...I did not know that..." End of conversation...My lead manager, Heidi. xD
I think that is a REALLY common thing that a lot of Americans don't actually know Puerto Rico is a part of the US. I think they view it the same way they do the Dominican republic, or Haiti
@@TheOystei Very true. We are right in the middle of the Caribbean, Dominican Republic is our neighbor, Haiti ain't far either, Cuba is not so far, etc...So when people see us and them, they assume we are the same. But sadly, and this is a bit off topic, while we are a US territory, we kind of aren't based on how things are going on over there. Our status is "yeah we own you, but you aren't really a part of our crew" kind of deal.
@@FicosGamingMind That's why Puerto Rico should come back to Spain and join the Eurozone and European Union as an autonomous off-shore region. US treats you as a colony in XXI century. You could elect your own congressmen between 1884 and 1898 and now you aren't able to.
3:08 Yes it is a thing. US school system is ... lackluster to put it generously. In some schools the teachings over multiple school years consist of *only* the US of A, it's humongous history and every last bit of capitalism that made it the best country in the world. Dumber than average students take it without thinking for themselves and believe there is the US and a bunch of hostile tribes around it at best. Leading to gems like this or "Oh, has africa invented cars yet?" questions on a regular basis. That especially holds true in geography and history. But also in science, economics and similar classes. Pretty much every school district has other rules what the teacher has to teach on the curriculum, with many following the US national anthem of *FREEEDOOOOOOM* , leading more often than occasionally to ... sub-par teachings because the teacher him-/herself is lacking. The job of a teacher in the US of A is one of the worst compensated and physically + mentally taxing there is. Depending on the state (as there are big differences in pay) even worse than working in a 1800's sweat shop factory.
Once when on holiday in Florida I was talking to an American from Maine and he said which country are you from because your English is very good. I replied i'm English from England, to which he said so what language do they speak in England.
12:13 Concentration Camps were all over German occupied territory, including Germany (1st was established in 1933 in Dachau). Most of the Death Camps that were specially designated as extermination centers were on Polish territory (Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka build in 1941/42).
The "Your English is so good" thing is not at all uncommon. For several years my daughter worked for well known cruise line operating out of US ports catering mainly for US customers. All members of the crew wore badges with their name, nationality and their national flag. So my daughter's badge had [her name], the Union Flag and *_England_* (not even UK, GB or Britain but England). She lost count of how many times she got the "your English is so good for a foreigner".............
All I can say is at least there are some of you that can be bothered to educate yourselves because it seems like your education system won't do it for you
It is for me, having lived there for 11 years and knowing first hand how dumbed down the system has been and for how many decades. It has serious consequences for the globe.
Getting Sweden and Switzerland mixed up in my language was very common too and the names are a lot more similar in my language. Suécia (Sweden) and Suíça (Switzerland).
@@ladythalia227 that is my "favourite", how many people from Netherlands caught me? And I know it, but in conversation it slips out wrongly every time :D
I've made more than 1 american believe Denmark is still living in the viking age and just ran with the joke until the skype/discord call couldn't keep a straight face anymore that their friend truly thought we hadn't left the iron age.
Hahaha, loved how your eye started twitching at one point. 😂😂😂 PS: had to turn the volume up and down all the time, but you probably already know. Now on to the next one in this playlist. 😃
Let me tell you about the Sweden - Switzerland mix up ... I use to refer to my home country Sweden as the cuckoo country without the clocks. It doesn't seem to help :p I guess the Austrians and Australians have kind of the same problem ...
(From Denmark) I had an American exchange student living with me, So during the second day as I was making dinner he see me taking out fresh chicken and rubbing seasoning on it, His reaction had me floored. You touch the food with your hands?!!! Erh... yes...? He continued. I dont think I can eat something another person has touched! He only stayed with me 3 weeks outta the 6 months he was suppose to.
If it was me I'd throw him out the same day. If a seemingly grown person can't cook food, they are literally just wasting air that other people need more. Pathetic.
@5.41 "Your English is amazing." I was in Vancouver Island a couple of years ago and met my friend's husband from Kentucky. He asked where I was from and I told him I was Scottish; he was amazed how well I spoke English!
Canadian here ... I went to buy a fishing license in South Dakota.. **" can I have your social security number?" Me. " I don't have one I'm not American ." **" what do you mean ? They give you one when your born ." Me ." I understand that but I'm not from here , I'm not from the USA ." He calls the state , I tell them I'm canadian. They then walk him through a fishing license for a nonresident alien
Irish here, I had decided I was going to do a J1 visa for my 18th bday. I was in Scouting, so applying to the BSA made the most sense, I got assigned to a camp in Illinois. Questions I was asked: Was I a member of the IRA? Did I know how to make a bomb? Did I have a TV? Or more routinely met with "I just love the UK, where in the UK are you from?" *twitch*
as a german I cringe everytime she says that... eventhough I guess her name hails (=originates) from the weather hail/hailstorm.... and not from the specific greeting
Hilarious!😁😁😁, But then I'm English so easy for me to say lol.HoweverI find that i love your vids ☺ i am subscribing now. I did hear from a friend of mine ( in L A) that his American gf can only tell the time from digital displays( she's 24). Good luck with your channel!
12:13 Many European countries, not just Poland, had German concentration camps: Poland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
ive had an american in a bar in AZ accusing my of lying when i said im from germany. he believed that germany ceased to exist after it lost in WW2 and everything that used to be germany was france now. he was sure i was danish, cause i spoke danish.. i was obviously speaking german, not danish.... i dont speak danish at all.. When I asked him how he knew danish, he said that he met someone from Stockholm before… which is in Sweden! So he mistook my German for Swedish, which he thought was danish 😂
I think I once read a statement that the Germanic nordic languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic) aren't that far off from each other, so that basic understanding between these is possible. So, maybe a foreigner could easily be confused with Swedish sounding like Danish... 😅
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish is similar, Icelandic is not remotely close to being similar to the Scandinavian languages. Yes, they have SOME words that are the same, but over-all it's just a completely different language. Also, no one confuses Swedish with Danish, if anything they'd confuse Swedish and Norwegian, but Danish really stands out and does not sound like the other two Scandinavian languages. I am Norwegian.
@@OriginalPuro It's only obvious to someone who's familiar with at least one of the languages. I mean, I'm Finnish and speak/understand a bit of Swedish and I still sometimes think Norwegian is Swedish for a long while before my brain finally catches on. Also, I'm certain most people in other regions of the world couldn't make out the difference between Finnish and Estonian if their life depended on it, while I wouldn't manage to order a meal in Estonia if they didn't speak Finnish or another common language.
Right?? Apparently it depends on which state you're in. Some states accept a passport, some will accept a Canadian ID. But not all. I didn't know that was an issue until this video either!
I think it also says something about the American character that around half the people featured in this video were Americans themselves, while I think the challenge/question was intended for non-Americans.
There is stupidity and ignorance, ignorance is when you do not know something, and stupidity is one someone says that you do not know but choose to not listen ...
I was in London today and a group of Americans tourists asked me how to get to St Paul's. It was the second left and I pointed at the street. They asked if left and right are the same in the UK... I said yes... then from out of nowhere they ask... Is England North or South of the equator... I say north trying to back out of the conversation... They the looked at each other knowingly like they figured something out. Are Americans being taught in school that left and right varies depending on which side of the equator you are on? This was 4 adults who all thought this.
I was working in the nite club in southern Croatia as a doorman and one time a black guy called me from outside to come out and asked me if black people are allowed to go inside the club, i asked him where is he from and he said from south Dakota USA, i really felt so bad for him..
I'm an American, but I have one for the UK. I was on vacation there with my French partner and we mainly speak French to each other. Every B&B we stayed at understood I spoke English, except for one. It didn't matter how well I spoke, the lady just couldn't accept I am American and speak English. She also kept speaking to other guests about us like I couldn't understand what she was saying (nothing bad, we were just the intriguing French couple). It was wild!
I once got told to speak English, in America. I am FROM England. The country from which English gets its name. (And it's not like I have a thick regional accent either.) Mind you, this was in Louisiana, where the local accent is so thick it could give tar a run for its money.
If the Geography teacher one was long enough ago the teacher is retired you've got to remember, the new teacher is probably a former student, lets hope they learnt better than to listen to them!!
Yes a map. But the Americans would not find their own country on that map of it is not centered round US. Possibly not even if it is. Only about 30% of Americans study geography during their school years...
Lived in America for couple years, and got used to questions like "Do you have fridges or electricity in Europe" or "Where in the US is Germany located" but my favorite question came from a man in his mid-thirties. We were talking and he randomly asks me "Do you have cars in Germany" knowing that he drives a BMW I replied "Yes" and asked him if he knew what BMW stands for. He replies "Of course, I'm a huge fan. It stands for Boston Motor Works".. I now have to convince the people at the airport to ride on horses for when he comes over by plane.
I've had a couple of american be disappointed that Amsterdam isn't some kind of themepark and it's not as crazy as they thought. There was also disappointment that no one wore clogs. (Some farmers actually still do so if you wanna see some visit a dairy farm) I did give them some pointers for some nice bisros and good stuff to do so I hope they had a good time but the initial (and I suppose quite American) perception of the outside world seem really detached.
When I was deployed in Macedonia and Kosovo we were on a base with the US 82nd airborne. Most didn't know where the Netherlands is. The easiest way to explain it was to ask if they knew Amsterdam, wich surprisingly they all knew, and that it's the capital of the Netherlands. Or I just said it's the country surrounding Amsterdam
@@vakhv2493 Uhm... Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands since it was changed in the constitution of 1983. The Hague is the governing city of the Netherlands.
@@vakhv2493 I give you major props for even knowing 👌🏽 It's weird to me that most Americans don't learn about the Dutch influence. Our history is so intertwined. From New Amsterdam to US independence to our current relation.
why wouldn't I know??? I got my education in Europe :) And i've been in Amsterdam - only for two days, but still :) as I said - my knowledge is shamefully rusted. But again, i still remember the times when Zimbabwe was called Rodesia and Congo was called Zaire:)@@MarcelL-DM
I just to work in a little restaurant and I was the only one that know how to speak english, when americans sit down, they start to ask why everything is always in spanish and why we don't speak english, and I was used to it so I say "Well is because we are in Chile, and this is part of latin america", But the best was when some american ask me how much time takes to drive to germany, they think that we are next to germany because por the word Kuchen (a germany word for cake, that in Chile became a type of pie because of the old germany colonies in the south of the country) and also because we eat bread (idk why Chile dosn't appear in english list of bread consuption per capita, because we eat like 98 kilograms/216 lbs, what are more that many countries in that list)
the vast majority was in germany, about 50. Compared to half a dozen in poland. One of the biggest and most famous one's was in Poland, but the guy still was confidently incorrect
As an American this had me face palm. OMG. I do have one I lost my drivers license. So I take my birth certificate to the DMV, I was born in Missouri and now live in Ohio. The girl told me I had to have an Ohio birth certificate. I said no I wasn't born there she kept telling me yes you do and I could over to the title office and have it transferred. I was so ticked and told her I wasn't an F*ing vehicle. Left and went to another one. How do these people get jobs?
I love how you stick up for the Americans, trying to give every one the benefit of the doubt. However, there comes a point, where you will realize, especially outside the US, that this is the normal state of affairs. Sad, but true. But you are learning. Hope it is not too depressing and you find some positive things soon 🙂 Even if the things you find out are obvious to anyone outside the US, you are not, so keep doing what you do, it can only benefit you, probably in a life outside the US in the not so distant future. But I had Florida natives in my time as a kid there who believed that Miami is the capital, when you point out it is not (you just learned in school) they say, of course they know that it is Washington D.C. Doh
I was in PA (Pennsylvania) and was asked twice if UK celebrates Independence day, to which I replied both times, "Who were you getting Independent from?". The first time I was told that it was celebrated in France, "But 10 days later". That's Bastille Day. Oh and to help you skip along, the yawn was at about 10:14 on the video.
There are people everywhere across the world who can dumb and say stupid things BUT I do have to say there is a difference towards the Americans though. We all know not all Americans are that stupid but compared to others the questions and statements are often very mind blowing and sometimes embarrassing tbh. Some things are seen as common knowledge across the world and it is crazy to me and probably to other people how big a lack of education can be and then you also see how closed off the US is to the rest of the world. Education is one thing, but being that selfcentered is another one. Sometimes its funny though how arrogantly ignorant they can be towards other people. One of the most common things are when some Americans whine how they cant pay in Dollars in a foreign country which has another currency. I am from Croatia, Europe.... and some who know about us still think we are a war zone....our war that sadly happened ended almost 30 years ago. And when they come here they are so surprised...I am more like if you think this is a war zone why would you go somewhere assuming there is a war anyway. The most fun thing though is you can make shit up and a lot of them will actually believe you 🙈
As a Swede I've been told that in Sweden we speak German and French. Now sure, that's just a mix up and I explained it to that person and this is where it gets really bad. He would not give up, he insisted. This was before the days of the Internet so no whipping out your phone and showing them either. This is one of the worst things about many Americans, the complete inability to ever admit that you are wrong.
The American media has a lot to answer for, while visiting the US I didn’t see any news about other countries unless an American died or something. World news is a thing the greatest news service in the world is based in Europe and everything doesn’t revolve around Washington or New York
I am a truck driver in Denmark, 2 years ago I ran into a "mature couple" who were on holiday in their motorhome.
While I was stretching my legs, the lady came over to me and asked:
"Hi we are Americans, we are looking for the ferry to Legoland, do you know where it departs from and what currency they use there?"
I tried to explain to them that there are no ferries to Legoland, but the lady cut me off...
"noo no no. you don't understand, we're going to Lego country, it's a country, so that's why we're going by ferry.!"
-once again I tried to explain, "Legoland" is not a country..
and then I could talk to her hand, "yeah right, what do you know, you're just a truck driver.."
she finished and left.
(for the record, I should probably mention that "Legoland" is an entertainment park located in the city of Billund, in Denmark.
in the style of disneyland, just built from lego blocks. )
but hey, what do I know, I'm just a truck driver... who happens to have grown up... in Billund.
these people shouldn't be allowed to drive
I mean it would be kind of cool if Legoland was basically the Danish Vatican.
@@Alias_Anybody "Please direct me to the ferry to the Vatican" :-)
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We need to take Fanø, Langeland or something and turn it in to Lego Island for the lulz.
I worked in Austria for a while and they have signs there specifically for American tourists. "There are no Kangaroos in Austria!"
Omg are you kidding me?? LOLOL
@@HailHeidi No, sorry, but that's the actual truth!
@@HailHeidi You can buy T shirts with it written on as well.
You dont have snow kangaroos? You terrorists!
@@oreocarlton3343 Carnivorous Koalas chased them all away.
An American once told me that Americans hate Europeans because we didn't warn them about 9/11. I asked how we should've warned them and he started to explain timezones to me. It wasn't a joke at all.
Lmao
Watch the movie *_"The Long Kiss Goodnight"_* ... it basically foreshadows the whole thing five years before it [SORT OF]:
- "big boom" with "arab terrorists"
- approximately 3-5000 dead
- three-letter-agencies get more funding afterwards ...
That's funny😂😂😂
Yeah, it really pisses me that my friend in Thailand doesn't text me the winning lottery numbers for Tomorrow.
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The conversation I had with my boyfriend's part of the family who happens to be from US (he's half British half Danish, so I can only imagine the things he had to listen to...)
Me: And then we went to Argentina, it was my first time there and it was so beautiful!
His aunt#1: Argentina? Where is that?
Me: oh, it's in South America.
His aunt#2: what you mean? Next to Mississippi, or something? Never heard of an Argentina.
Me: no, I mean the country. It's in South America, part of the continent.
Aunt#1: what do you mean South America? Why do you talk like that?
Me: oh, I mean the whole american continent. Like North America, Central America, South America, you know.
Aunt#2: Central America????? I've never heard someone saying it like this
Me: Yes, Central America, like Guatemala, Honduras...
Aunt#1: You mean, Kansas, or Nebraska? Why you calling it the Central America?
You know, I just smile and gave up and got up to take some casseroles.
Imagine the confusion in their faces when they realize I'm from Brazil and that's also in America...
Oh god... and I thought I was bad at geography. 😂
@@HailHeidi that is to much informations for aunt in 1 day😂😂😂😂
Technically North and South America are separate continents and Central America is just part of the North American continent but the USA barely tolerates Mexico as part of North America, further south is far to Spanish speaking for their comfort.
I was going to say "Brazil, where the nuts come from?", but maybe from USA instead.
@@mormacil but in south america there are countries that speak dutch, english, french and portuguese as the official language and two of them are still part of europe.
I worked in adventure tourism in New Zealand. We actually kept a logbook of dumb things Americans said. Like "What time does the 10am tour depart?" "How long is the three hour trip?" or best yet, on an adventure cave trip, "Our caves in the USA are darker than this." I said, "Turn off your light!" Pause, and "Oh yeah!"
Oh my god, that' so funny!! Oh man, but I'm also face palming. 😅
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Hahaha 😂
Please leak it I would love to read it :D
To adapt a famous Kiwi saying… Every New Zealander who goes from NZ to America raises the average IQ of both countries.
Visiting Warwick Castle (UK), and queuing to visit the dungeons. It is tight corridor when people had to take it in turns to walk along the corridor to go in and come out. There was a middle-aged American couple next in line to go in and he exclaimed “you’d have thought they’d know how popular the dungeons would be, so the contractors could have made the entrance a decent size”. I had to tell him Warwick Castle was a real castle (built 1068), not a purpose built tourist attraction.
To be fair, the builders at Warwick Castle back in the 11th century probably had roughly the same labour rights and protections, including sick leave and paid time off, as many US workers today.
Mean bro!
@@winterbas8927 ...but true
Yea, Warwick Castle, built by Angles and Saxons, but designed by Norman's.
Let's see these 'Americans' (excluding Canadians and all south and inclusive of Mexico), get their heads round that.
As Italian... while playing online with a U.S. guy he told me literaly " u are from a 3rd world country without any colture ". In that moment i saw in my mind the David of Michelangelo crying
The Sistine Chapel is other-worldly. There are art masters then there is Michaelangelo...
Leonardo turned in his grave
Out of ALL the countries... Wow...
I got to witness a small group of US Americans during the pandemic when masks at airports and in planes were mandatory in most of Europe. Several of them decided they needed to take off their masks at the gate, waiting for a flight from Frankfurt to Dublin. They were very politely asked to put them on by other passengers who were not very politely told to go away. They were politely asked by staff to put them on to which two people responded that "asking us to put on masks violates their first amendment rights" (which a) is total bollocks and b) would not matter because they were not in the USA). When told that the US constitution doesn't apply in Germany the response was "the first amendment is international". This did, of course, hold up everything, since they were not allowed to board without masks. The police had to show up and, also politely, no weapons brandished, no force exercised, no threats made, told them that if they insist on behaving like this, they would not be allowed on the plane and would need to be escorted away from the gate. The reaction to this was, predictably, that one of them said "Germany is still a Nazi country, Hitler would be proud". I should add that several other people from USA who were not part of that group very vocally told them to shut the f up, repeatedly. In the end, they were led away (I have no idea what, if any, charges were levelled against them), which caused a severe delay, as their luggage had to be taken off.
The ENTIRE exchange was so absolutely, ridiculously stupid it still angers me.
OMG! You can get arrested for doing the N.z. salute over there nevermind what they said!
Sincerely hope they were charged for that disgusting behaviour! Entitled idiots.
I (from Austria) was studying in the US (St Louis). I was sitting in my dorm (on my high-end gaming computer, mind you) and a class mate, who was over, asked me how i enjoyed all the technology here in the US. Like, electricity, internet and so on.
I looked him in the eye and told him: Well, I had to ride a donkey to Germany, because we dont have electricity/cars in Austria. The plane ride to the US was amazing. I love being able to read at night and so on. He thought I was serious.
I was doing my masters in finance (so was he). He then asked me what language was my mother tongue (German). Then he asked me whether Hitler was still our "president". I told him "yes". He was content with my answer and didnt ask further questions. I was dumbfounded. But i had a lot of fun messing with that guy^^ (he was from texas)
Can’t believe I’m doing this, but in Shanon’s defence there were definitely concentration camps in Germany.
yes, I guess she meant Munich and Dachau.
Was looking for this
The majority were actually in Germany. Basically one in most neighboring countries, with Poland being the exception with about half a dozen, including the single most infamous one of Auschwitz. But yeah, Dachau is probably the second most infamous, and it was in Germany.
@@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682 Bergen Belsen? Neuengamme? Buchenwald? Lots of concentration camps in Germany next to Dachau. That Swiss guy was at least as stupid as Shanon and he had a proper European education.....
And we are fucked by another German, Klaus Schwab, but that's not your fault...
I love your response to the US Geography teaching about Canadians having sleds.... "That was a long time ago.... that stuff doesn't happen now.." and the look of desperation on your face... hilarious!!! 😂😂😂😂
The bit I loved the most was the silence with the eye twitch before she desperately started trying to explain it away.
“I didn’t know we were in North America! I thought we were in East America!” -kid in my class
as a canadian i am not surprised that, that is probably a stereotype just shocked a geography teacher would be too lazy to learn that, that is one of the most untrue stereotypes lol
@@ComradeLuka That's what happens when citizens approppiate the CONTINENT name to identify their own country.
Unfortunately, it is only getting worse.
I have one of these. I was recently sat by the river in the city of York in England and got chatting with an American tourist. He was interested in the river and finally he asked me, "Doesn't this river flow into the sea then?" Well yes it does. It's sort of a river thing. It's what they do. When I affirmed that the river did indeed flow to the sea he looked puzzled and hooked a thumb over his shoulder. "But I thought the sea was in that direction." I just looked at him and said "We live on an island. Every direction is towards the sea."
Well, if you continue in a straight line anywhere on any landmass, you'll get to the sea eventually.
Aussie here. As a teen (15/16/17) after school I would hang out with friends at a train/bus station that was located near shipping port dock (in a somewhat touristy town). Every so often US navy ships dock there for a few days so there would American sailors wandering around. One afternoon I'm with my friends & a couple sailors walk past us & we hear them say something along the lines of "I'm actually so surprised how well these people speak english" Oh we laughed so hard.
They must've only have met the intelligible ones xD (I love Aussies).
@@esaedvik In the town where we were in with all the substance abuse that was going on it wouldn't surprise me :p They probably had some interesting rides on the train to cbd too.
Freo? Or sydney lolz
@@Fluffymumma Freo 😛
@@cazzle80 She shoots SHEEEEE SCOOOOOOORRRREEEESS
I was speaking to two middle aged American tourists in Penang Malaysia and they said they could trace their ancestors back to the Mayflower.
I complemented them and the guy being so proud said, and how far back can you trace your family? When I said 594... He said you've missed out the 1 as in 1594! Luckily I had tablet with me, so I pulled up the Scottish Ancestry side clicked on my family name and up popped the full history of my family including the Crest & Tartan!!! They couldn't get their heads round that history goes back further than the foundation of America.
Many American's think that "European history" or "global history" ended when "American history" started.
It's just so stupid that I can't put it in words.
"American history" is so young that we have outhouses that are older, in Europe.
@@OriginalPuro Yeah, I once told an American colleague that my home village was the youngest in my county and he was in a bit of disbelief when I then answered "when was it founded?" with "1711". Our local football (soccer) club is older than his home town, so is the house I grew up in (both from the 1910s). He could not wrap his head around 300 years being a fairly new village / town and a 100 years being nothing special for a sports club or a residential building.
@@timolynch149 The building I live in, Scotland, is several centuries old. There is a grave marker in the church yard next to it which is from the battle of Falkirk 1298 (this battle features in the movie Braveheart) and my family name is older than that, it's older than surnames. Its often the case were I have to explain these things to Americans who think America invented the world.
@@TheJpf79 Yeah... and then do "and the city was founded during the Roman Empire, so it's about 2,000 years old 😅
@@TheJpf79 I've been to so many countries in Europe, but really haven't had the time to plan a trip to England in general, but I would love to visit Edinburgh, it's so old and beautiful, and so wonderfully kept, I actually have family living in Edinburgh, I'll take the time to go and visit. PS: sorry for any mistake, english in not my first language
Just from today: "I don't think Ukraine is a part of Geneva Convention."
Context: Ukraine signed and ratified Geneva Convention and every single one of its protocols. The US did not.
I actually had to google this one because I wasn't super familiar with the Geneva convention at all! Pretty interesting stuff!
They _can't_ sign every one, or they'd lose the main means to maintain the border between North and South Korea (landmines)...
As much as I love bashing the USA for stuff like that, it's a _little_ more complex in a few cases here and there 🙃
@@Wolf-ln1ml Naturally. I'm sure landmines are the reason why they didn't ratify Protocol I, which forbids indiscriminate attacks against civilian populations, nuclear installations and conscription of children. And South Korea is most certainly why they didn't ratify Protocol II, which deals with protection of civilians during *civil* wars.
Much as I hate bashing the USA for the sake of it, read up before you talk about complexity.
@@elevenm.a.1125 I never said that they actually have some reason for every one they didn't sign. Hell, I don't even think the landmine border in Korea is a _good_ reason to not sign the Anti-Personnel Land Mines Convention, I just think it's an _understandable_ reason for them to not sign it. Kind of like looking at the apparently flat horizon is an _understandable_ reason to conclude that the Earth is flat, but it's not a _good_ reason.
@@HailHeidi The USA is in the habit of not supporting or signing international agreements that have to do with war crimes and / or recognise international courts. I find it ironic, for instance, when members of the current or previous US administrations want war criminals tried at the International Criminal Court in The Hague (full disclosure: The people they want prosecuted SHOULD be, they really are war criminals and the likes), but yet the USA refuse to recognise the authority of the court when it comes to their own citizens. In other word, if a Russian or Serbian or Iranian etc soldier commits war crimes, The Hague should prosecute them (again: I think that is prudent - War crimes should be adjudicated by an international tribunal, not by whoever wins the war). If a US soldier commits a war crime, he gets tried in the USA, if at all, and can then even be pardoned by a US president to score political points. One law for thee, one law for me.
I recently helped an American with translation issues at my hotel in Tokyo and in the lift afterwards he first said 'you don't look Japanese' and I explained to him that I was from Australia. To which he asks if I drove or flew to Japan. I took the piss of course, told him I drove and that it takes about 18 hours if you get good traffic over the Pacific and if the waves aren't too rough. He completely believed me. The poor Japanese girl in the lift was giggling like mad 😂😂
As a former petty officier of the french navy I was asked proudly by an Harvard graduated man if we had fridge in France so I suggested him to sue Harvard not to be able to teach that a Kiddengarden kid in France is aware of that in the USA
1991, US exchange students came to my high school. One of them, his parents being a physician and a teacher stayed with my best friend's parents. He was gobsmacked when he saw cars, especially Mercedeses and BMWs, everywhere. And yes, when he entered my buddies kitchen he loudly exclaimed that he didn't know we had fridges in Europe.
@@timolynch149 your guy was in highschool mine was just graduated from on of the biggest us university HARVARD
@@MrApocalyptica83 Yeah, lol, although in my experience the US school system does not usually try to give a broad education, but rather a specialised one (not to mention the very Anglo-sphere tendency to train you how to pass tests, not to train you for life after school - more people graduating with degrees, better for the schools stats, more people want to go there and spend money). I have met graduates from Princeton, Harvard, CalTech, MIT.. awesome in their fields but routinely ignorant of anything slightly removed.
@@timolynch149 sure but if their education fee were like in Europe mostly free i could accept the fact that they can ignore some things outside of their country but with a semester at 51000 us dollar in HAVARD it's unacceptable to not prepare their students to meet people from foreign country and that lead to those joke that USA citizen don't understand that when American guy left Europe to go back to states he say i go back to the work that my dad answered i go back to civilization when he was coming back from the us lol
@@MrApocalyptica83 That's the miracle of unfettered capitalism, friend:
If everything is for profit and little is regulated, you will end up with expensive healthcare that doesn't keep most people healthy and expensive education that makes sure you will be a good lawyer, but you may well think the earth is flat.
I grew up in Germany and live in Ireland, I have traveled a lot during my life and I am quite grateful for the fact that I was able to get a good education without my parents bankrupting themselves or me being saddled with debts until I retire. I'm grateful that when I got very ill, I was able to get treated without having to fear I would end up broke and homeless.
I work in a hotel in Canada and so often Americans will be like "can you break a $100 bill for me?" and I will be like "of course!" and then they'll hand me an American $100 bill and I'll go "oh, I'm sorry, I can break this but you'll be receiving Canadian dollars" and they'll be like "no, I want it in American" and I'll be like "then you'll have to go down the hall to the currency exchange. we don't have American cash on hand" and they'll either yell at me for not being a bank OR go "fine give me the fucking monopoly money" this convo happens SO OFTEN and I can't believe it's real every time it happens and I'm the one experiencing it 😑
The best one I heard was "I wish they built the castle (built circa 1100) closer to the train station (built around 1890)".
Wtf!
One that was mentioned about Windsor Castle (construction started 1070) was why they had built the castle so close to the airport (Heathrow).
When American woman asked me where I was from, I replied "Serbia", she responded "omg I love your tigers". She thought I meant Siberia. Also had a few interactions with Americans thinking I said Syria. Apparently we don't exist.
Not the tiger comment! 🤣🤦♀️
@@HailHeidiyeah thinking Tht in 1992-93-94 ușa and nato tropos atacked Serbia and destroy the entire country me being roumanian neat to ther border with Serbia i Heard all the time how ușa bombing Serbian civilians and even a bad thing they bombed an entire train of civilians train în 1993 a ușa army plutoons with arms he got into Roumanian Trains and they go stopped for 10 days because the sergeat was to entitled and he didnt present documents
Everyone knows and loves the Serbian tigers! 😁
Not siberian tiger?
I’m Australian and when I visited the states I had someone that I’d shared a room with (like a dorm room) ask me to say something in my language. I was so confused, laughed awkwardly and just “I don’t know, g’day mate?”
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As a Dane travelling a lot in USA I have heard a lot of stupid things but 1st prize was once in New Orleans, my wife and I was on a guided walk in Garden District. Outside a certain house our guide told us that this house from right before the civil war was built by a rich merchant for his daughter and her husband as it was difficult to get a place to live. An American guy told us that it was still difficult at least in San Francisco, so he was thinking of buying a place for his son. We told him that for the same reason we were sbout to buy an appartment back in Copenhagen for our daughter and we chatted a bit a out that until we were interrupted by a woman, late thirties, who exclaimed that she didn't understand our problem, because "In Europe three generations livedbin the dame room!"
We do? That's news to me
*having moved out at 19 and living alone since then * ... ohhhh I know what they mean!!! There is me! And then there are my three cats! Because two of them are a bit older and the third is pretty young that would be:
First generation = me (37 years)
Second generation = my two senior cats (15 years old)
Third generation = the little one (3 years old)
Right?
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I am from Germany and it is common for young people to go a bit abroad here. So when we were in the Oberstufe which in the US equals college, some people went to the US for an Au-pair year. And a lot came back telling us that they got actively approached by random US Americans saying to them: "Oh you come from Germany? Oh it must be so bad living under Hitler!"
I could not believe it but it was told by a lot of fellow Germans to me.
When I was in school in those days, it was the year 2002 and for all not knowing: Hitler blowed his head away in his bunker in Berlin on the 30th of April 1945. So when my classmates went to the US, Hitler was thankfully dead for 57 years. So no, none of us thankfully had to live under him.
But that people of a nation who took such a crucial part in overthrowing the very man with their own army did not know that he was dead, I can't believe to this very day, although it is apparently true.
3:15 Nope, that is a thing. It's the stronger version of US americans being unable to locate any country - including the USA - on a map. Or at least name the continents correctly.
8:50 That wouldn't make any more sense either. US banks do serve non-US customers all the time, none of which has a US ID because they are not from the USA. If I as a German move to the USA I have to open a bank account at a US bank in most areas - and my German passport (or my German photo ID card) are perfectly viable for that. Same with the earlier case of buying alcohol btw - you don't need a US ID to buy alcohol in the USA, you need a valid ID which can also be a passport from another country if you happen to be from elsewhere.
11:20 I don't think so. I've met so many US americans that ask me if I as a German speak German. And they're not joking, it is completely alien to them that people from other countries might actually speak their native language instead of English. This sometimes gets really ridiculous when they can't believe that people from England speak English.
Side note: English is not even the official language of the USA - The USA don't have any official language at all.
My personal dumbest US american moment: I was chatting with a girl from LA and she asked me if we have Internet in Germany. While chatting with me over the internet.
Maybe it is due to that whole heritage thing. Like, when you say you are German they think "Oh, so his great-great-grandfather had Sauerkraut once, got it." and if that is the case, it is understandable, that they have to ask whether you can speak German.
@@GGysar That only makes them more stupid.
"Name the continents" Well, there is a Map Men video on that, because it's not really that simple.
12:10 Shannon actually has a point here: The camps were not only in Poland, but throughout Europe...
I found your most recent video in this series first and followed your reactions backwards. I love how you progressed from disbelief and denial, to sceptical astonishment, to acceptance, and finally finding it as funny as the rest of us out here in the world beyond the USA. Good job, well done, I look forward to seeing more of you learning about the world beyond the USA.
I'm Belgian. Used to work in Bruges in a supermarket, it's an area with a lot of tourists. One time an American came up to the counter and asked a question (well, directions to the city center to be precise). He didn't understand why I could replay him in decent English. He actually started to argue with me that it was impossible that my English was so good because I'm Belgian. He was convinced that I was either a foreigner of that his earing was off. Weirdest conversation ever...
Ah yes. When I was in college (I'm Brazilian), I once worked as a liason receiving foreign exchange students and a american guy couldn't believe I was brazilian because my english was too good... I had so many weird, pointless discussions with that guy. I was amazed he was a Masters student!!
I love Bruges!
@@izibear4462 , I'm from Bruges and I love it too. It's one of the most beautifull cities in the world. I'm biased, of course. :)
Gilles, most people don't know that in Flanders, Belgium all the foreign movies and TV series get subtitles. We and the Netherlands are the only countries in Europe that do that. It makes it that much easier to speak other languages.
@@svenguinee1072 being from holland, i still always wonder when games come out, that there are some many translations, dont they learn english in the rest of europe?, but now it slightly makes sense, as im used to just have the movie/game in english
Lol. I could remember a few years back. A white couple ask a family member of mine where are they from. Mexican living in chicago. They responded Texas. And they asked “well what about your parents,grandparents.” They kept answering Texas. They are the only cousin I know that can trace back their roots all the way back to when Mexico owned Texas. So yea.
As an Australian I have been complimented on my English on more than one occasion with one woman thinking that we spoke Spanish in Australia.
I’m from Northeast England and met an American woman in Spain. She said to me “so your like Australian then” and I said “no I’m British, England specifically. She didn’t believe me and started laughing and thought I was joking. So when I frowning and saying no I was actually English. Then she started to get a bit angry saying I was making fun of her. She said I couldn’t be British because she didn’t think I had a British accent, and was convinced my accent was Australian.
God knows what she thought a British accent was supposed to be. But I would hazard a guess at a Victorian cockney chimney sweep or one of the very Posh Received Pronunciation accents (which is actually more common in Scotland than England).
@@JarlGrimmToys American says you have a British accent
Me scratching my head: ummm... but the American is the one with the accent.
Nick: Lol the way I see it, we both have accents. We have a US American accent and they have a British accent, etc. I think everyone who speaks a language technically has an accent. That's how I understand it anyway! 😊
@@HailHeidi they say in the UK the accent changes every 5 miles.
It’s pretty common for some people in the UK to not understand the accents in other parts of the UK.
My wife was born 10 miles away from me, and moved to a town near the village I was born. She struggles occasionally when I say something in dialect. If you go 20 miles over the county line they start to pronounce words like look and book, to rhyme with Luke or Duke.
I speak with an American accent (sadly), and still American's claim that I am British because I am able to speak proper English.
It's just called education.
American's don't have much education apart from noah's ark and "core math"..
OK here's 1 that I've had we're in London England and am a white English man living here. Unfortunately, the full stereotype, and I meet this couple who look like they'd just retired and they complimented how great I can speak English.
1. You are in a country which has its language in its name
2. What language did you think we'd be speaking
3. What language do you speak if it's not English
I was stunned and yet I said, 'it was easy we took English classes at school, and it only takes a year to pick it up.' and they believed me!
I life near an american airbase here in germany and when i was out at a nightclub where are americans too one man ask me why we have so many american cars like BMW and Merceds. WTF?!
I know only one base in Deutschland and one bright music band with same name.
As a Luxembourger myself, I totally feel for that Swizz-Luxembourgish dude… Every time I talked to an American, they always asked me either what state that is or where in Germany that is… Like… okay I get it we are only 650k people, but a founder state of the EU!
Imagine what they'd make of even smaller countries like Andorra or Liechtenstein!
@@tristandunn4628 And then completely baffle them by telling them "Most Luxemburgers speak at least three languages, most people from Andorra, too"
How about you hold an referendum and then join germany :D then you can answer that question easily :D
Wait until they discover that their is a province in Belgium that also is called Luxembourg 😂
There was a comedy sketch show here in Belgium called "what if", and one of the sketches was "what if everyone had forgotten Luxemburg". It had a representative of Luxemburg showing up to some international meeting (possibly EU) with "Luxemburg" handwritten on a piece of paper to put on the desk in front of him. Nobody understanding who he was or where he was from. Even the Belgian guy on the table was confused, looked it up on his phone and found that Luxemburg is a Belgian province, then started to apologize to everyone that there was an extra Belgian dude there for no reason.
Great sketch.
12:50 This guy just cracked me up laughing, seriously ! XD I knew american people could suck at geography sometimes, but that is just amazingly ridiculous 😆
It's not that they CAN suck at geography, it's that they DO suck at geography.
Geography, history, maths, languages and so on, they all suck at it.
Many people don't know countries outside of the US, many people can't do 3x3x3 and some people think that the US was founded in the 1990s..
American's aren't very smart, as an outsider I know more about American history, geography and society than many murricans.
Finnish here, those videos make me laugh, and also cry, and ask what on earth they do teach in United States and how much they leave out.
Lol love your videos! I am from Michigan and moved to Florida for a while and a lot of stores wouldn't accept my id because they thought Michigan was in Canada and tried to tell me the upper peninsula of Michigan made it Canadian so all of Michigan was Canadian! So I tried to use simple logic! I questioned them about Detroit (Michigan) and then I informed them my city was near Detroit! They told me I didn't know anything because Canada is next to Detroit, which is accurate! They called the police on me saying I had a fake Id! I have lost all faith in our educational system!
Now that is worrying. You hear of foreigners commenting how Americans don't know much about other countries, but it seems they don't even know their own country.
I’m from Iceland, and I was on Omegle there was this American who asked me where I was from and I of course, said that was from Iceland.
He deadass said to me (so You are from Canada) I tried to explain to him that Iceland is not part of Canada. Then you went on saying that Iceland is just a mythical place and it doesn’t exist and it’s part of Canada.
That implies Canada is also a mythical place.
@@FlyingFox86 To the Americans it probably is
As a Canadian, I want to be stereotypical and say sorry....
I've spent a few winters in the US, I found that Australians have many words for any particular thing where as Americans seem to only have one. It was a long time ago I purchased a stamp to mail a letter home from a Seven Eleven. I can't remember what the right word ended it ended up being but I wanted to know where a Post box was. I tried Letter Box, mail Box , Post Box I think in the end I just asked where I had to put the letter to get it mailed.
Hey Heidi! Loving your reactions xD. I am from Puerto Rico and in mid 2000s I had my first IT job in Florida. So I got in and I was a contractor, and my lead manager, my top contractor boss asks me, "Hey, you are from Puerto Rico, right?" And I said "Yeah! I moved from Puerto Rico, I lived there all my life and I moved here for work.". And then he goes..."Are you here on a green card?" And I was like..."No I didn't come on a green card. Puerto Rico is a US terrirory so...everyone in Puerto Rico is American." He goes..."Oh...I did not know that..." End of conversation...My lead manager, Heidi. xD
Ooooh no. Lol
At least He knew when to shut up. 😆
I think that is a REALLY common thing that a lot of Americans don't actually know Puerto Rico is a part of the US. I think they view it the same way they do the Dominican republic, or Haiti
@@TheOystei Very true. We are right in the middle of the Caribbean, Dominican Republic is our neighbor, Haiti ain't far either, Cuba is not so far, etc...So when people see us and them, they assume we are the same. But sadly, and this is a bit off topic, while we are a US territory, we kind of aren't based on how things are going on over there. Our status is "yeah we own you, but you aren't really a part of our crew" kind of deal.
@@FicosGamingMind That's why Puerto Rico should come back to Spain and join the Eurozone and European Union as an autonomous off-shore region.
US treats you as a colony in XXI century. You could elect your own congressmen between 1884 and 1898 and now you aren't able to.
3:08
Yes it is a thing.
US school system is ... lackluster to put it generously.
In some schools the teachings over multiple school years consist of *only* the US of A, it's humongous history and every last bit of capitalism that made it the best country in the world.
Dumber than average students take it without thinking for themselves and believe there is the US and a bunch of hostile tribes around it at best.
Leading to gems like this or "Oh, has africa invented cars yet?" questions on a regular basis.
That especially holds true in geography and history. But also in science, economics and similar classes.
Pretty much every school district has other rules what the teacher has to teach on the curriculum, with many following the US national anthem of *FREEEDOOOOOOM* , leading more often than occasionally to ... sub-par teachings because the teacher him-/herself is lacking.
The job of a teacher in the US of A is one of the worst compensated and physically + mentally taxing there is.
Depending on the state (as there are big differences in pay) even worse than working in a 1800's sweat shop factory.
Once when on holiday in Florida I was talking to an American from Maine and he said which country are you from because your English is very good. I replied i'm English from England, to which he said so what language do they speak in England.
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Rolling my eyes at this point.🙄
bet that person doesn't even know what 1 plus 1 equals to is...☠️
12:13 Concentration Camps were all over German occupied territory, including Germany (1st was established in 1933 in Dachau). Most of the Death Camps that were specially designated as extermination centers were on Polish territory (Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka build in 1941/42).
The "Your English is so good" thing is not at all uncommon. For several years my daughter worked for well known cruise line operating out of US ports catering mainly for US customers. All members of the crew wore badges with their name, nationality and their national flag. So my daughter's badge had [her name], the Union Flag and *_England_* (not even UK, GB or Britain but England). She lost count of how many times she got the "your English is so good for a foreigner".............
As an American, this is painful.
That was painful for everyone involved. Ignorance is indeed bliss.
All I can say is at least there are some of you that can be bothered to educate yourselves because it seems like your education system won't do it for you
It is for me, having lived there for 11 years and knowing first hand how dumbed down the system has been and for how many decades. It has serious consequences for the globe.
6:48 That little eye twitch was hilarious!
Getting Sweden and Switzerland mixed up in my language was very common too and the names are a lot more similar in my language. Suécia (Sweden) and Suíça (Switzerland).
Oh wow, that would be confusing!
Someone here speaks portuguese as well 😁
Also Danish and Dutch
@@ladythalia227 that is my "favourite", how many people from Netherlands caught me? And I know it, but in conversation it slips out wrongly every time :D
@@ladythalia227 That would be quite difficult in countries with Romance Languages (coming from Ancient Latin) because Netherlands is called "Holland"
I've made more than 1 american believe Denmark is still living in the viking age and just ran with the joke until the skype/discord call couldn't keep a straight face anymore that their friend truly thought we hadn't left the iron age.
you could have taken it a step further, and told him we still are banned from traveling to England and France
@@weybye91 😂😂😂
Hahaha, loved how your eye started twitching at one point. 😂😂😂
PS: had to turn the volume up and down all the time, but you probably already know. Now on to the next one in this playlist. 😃
Let me tell you about the Sweden - Switzerland mix up ... I use to refer to my home country Sweden as the cuckoo country without the clocks. It doesn't seem to help :p
I guess the Austrians and Australians have kind of the same problem ...
Yep, saw a woman get Austria and Australia mixed up right here on youtube.
I LOVE that her left eye twitches when it sinks in LOL. At 6:54
5:43 I am Canadian and I have been told that my English is very good more than once by Americans. I don't know if he was joking or not
That's nothing, try being English and being told your English is very good, that has happened to me a few times
@@matthewoleary02 Oh god...
These always have the best comments. They're like an extra video.
(From Denmark) I had an American exchange student living with me, So during the second day as I was making dinner he see me taking out fresh chicken and rubbing seasoning on it, His reaction had me floored. You touch the food with your hands?!!! Erh... yes...? He continued. I dont think I can eat something another person has touched!
He only stayed with me 3 weeks outta the 6 months he was suppose to.
His food was cooked by angels at home.
If it was me I'd throw him out the same day.
If a seemingly grown person can't cook food, they are literally just wasting air that other people need more.
Pathetic.
@5.41 "Your English is amazing." I was in Vancouver Island a couple of years ago and met my friend's husband from Kentucky. He asked where I was from and I told him I was Scottish; he was amazed how well I spoke English!
In all fairness, though, you rarely meet Scottish who speak good English.
Canadian here ...
I went to buy a fishing license in South Dakota..
**" can I have your social security number?"
Me. " I don't have one I'm not American ."
**" what do you mean ? They give you one when your born ."
Me ." I understand that but I'm not from here , I'm not from the USA ."
He calls the state , I tell them I'm canadian.
They then walk him through a fishing license for a nonresident alien
"Australian...ish...ese"... I'm an Australian.... pissed myself laughing at that one.
Irish here, I had decided I was going to do a J1 visa for my 18th bday. I was in Scouting, so applying to the BSA made the most sense, I got assigned to a camp in Illinois.
Questions I was asked:
Was I a member of the IRA?
Did I know how to make a bomb?
Did I have a TV?
Or more routinely met with "I just love the UK, where in the UK are you from?" *twitch*
6:34 Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh ...
"Iam Hail Heidi"
Germans : "we will just call u Heidi"
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as a german I cringe everytime she says that... eventhough I guess her name hails (=originates) from the weather hail/hailstorm.... and not from the specific greeting
Hilarious!😁😁😁, But then I'm English so easy for me to say lol.HoweverI find that i love your vids ☺ i am subscribing now. I did hear from a friend of mine ( in L A) that his American gf can only tell the time from digital displays( she's 24). Good luck with your channel!
9:32 you didn't really react to him saying that they asked if he spoke SWEDISH, they speak Swedish in Sweden, not in Switzerland.
It's amazing how common ignorance about languages and countries are, in the US.
12:13 Many European countries, not just Poland, had German concentration camps: Poland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Hungary, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
makes you realise how isolated americans are in terms of the rest of the world and education being somewhat questionable for some
I live in Niagara falls , Canada, one July a car pulled up with Colorado plates and skies on the roof asking me how far to the ski slopes.
ive had an american in a bar in AZ accusing my of lying when i said im from germany. he believed that germany ceased to exist after it lost in WW2 and everything that used to be germany was france now.
he was sure i was danish, cause i spoke danish..
i was obviously speaking german, not danish.... i dont speak danish at all..
When I asked him how he knew danish, he said that he met someone from Stockholm before… which is in Sweden!
So he mistook my German for Swedish, which he thought was danish 😂
I think I once read a statement that the Germanic nordic languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic) aren't that far off from each other, so that basic understanding between these is possible. So, maybe a foreigner could easily be confused with Swedish sounding like Danish... 😅
Norwegian, Danish and Swedish is similar, Icelandic is not remotely close to being similar to the Scandinavian languages.
Yes, they have SOME words that are the same, but over-all it's just a completely different language.
Also, no one confuses Swedish with Danish, if anything they'd confuse Swedish and Norwegian, but Danish really stands out and does not sound like the other two Scandinavian languages.
I am Norwegian.
@@OriginalPuro It's only obvious to someone who's familiar with at least one of the languages. I mean, I'm Finnish and speak/understand a bit of Swedish and I still sometimes think Norwegian is Swedish for a long while before my brain finally catches on. Also, I'm certain most people in other regions of the world couldn't make out the difference between Finnish and Estonian if their life depended on it, while I wouldn't manage to order a meal in Estonia if they didn't speak Finnish or another common language.
@@OriginalPuro question
Do folks in Norway still inhale 'ja' at the end of their sentences?
6:42 ohh sweetie, yes that was a long time ago, they have gotten cars since then, but its mainly sleds :) lmao
LOL
1:22 So as a Canadian, I can't buy any beer in America because Iam not an American who knew. Not going there for vacation.
Right?? Apparently it depends on which state you're in. Some states accept a passport, some will accept a Canadian ID. But not all. I didn't know that was an issue until this video either!
@@HailHeidi I was being sarcastic.
@@SchnuffiJames lol good. Still interesting that it would be an issue in the first place, though.
I absolutely agree 100% with the people claiming *Idiocracy* was rather a documentary about america than a movie
I think it also says something about the American character that around half the people featured in this video were Americans themselves, while I think the challenge/question was intended for non-Americans.
There is stupidity and ignorance, ignorance is when you do not know something, and stupidity is one someone says that you do not know but choose to not listen ...
I was in London today and a group of Americans tourists asked me how to get to St Paul's. It was the second left and I pointed at the street. They asked if left and right are the same in the UK... I said yes... then from out of nowhere they ask... Is England North or South of the equator... I say north trying to back out of the conversation... They the looked at each other knowingly like they figured something out.
Are Americans being taught in school that left and right varies depending on which side of the equator you are on? This was 4 adults who all thought this.
Trying to be fair here. Maybe they noticed you drive on the opposite side of the road from the US so they thought maybe left and right were reversed?
12:10 - To be fair, quite a few concentration camps were on German soil, including the probably second most infamous one of Dachau...
I was working in the nite club in southern Croatia as a doorman and one time a black guy called me from outside to come out and asked me if black people are allowed to go inside the club, i asked him where is he from and he said from south Dakota USA, i really felt so bad for him..
Thta's so sad ,(
I'm an American, but I have one for the UK. I was on vacation there with my French partner and we mainly speak French to each other. Every B&B we stayed at understood I spoke English, except for one. It didn't matter how well I spoke, the lady just couldn't accept I am American and speak English. She also kept speaking to other guests about us like I couldn't understand what she was saying (nothing bad, we were just the intriguing French couple). It was wild!
Love how we can see the pain on your face :D
Oh gosh, it was painful sometimes. 😅
6:45 Dead ass that little eye twitch had me bursting out laughing XD!!
I once got told to speak English, in America. I am FROM England. The country from which English gets its name. (And it's not like I have a thick regional accent either.) Mind you, this was in Louisiana, where the local accent is so thick it could give tar a run for its money.
If the Geography teacher one was long enough ago the teacher is retired you've got to remember, the new teacher is probably a former student, lets hope they learnt better than to listen to them!!
I would pull out a Map, if that ever happend to me. USA is Not all of Amerika and Amerika is NOT the world!
Yes a map. But the Americans would not find their own country on that map of it is not centered round US. Possibly not even if it is. Only about 30% of Americans study geography during their school years...
Lived in America for couple years, and got used to questions like "Do you have fridges or electricity in Europe" or "Where in the US is Germany located" but my favorite question came from a man in his mid-thirties. We were talking and he randomly asks me "Do you have cars in Germany" knowing that he drives a BMW I replied "Yes" and asked him if he knew what BMW stands for. He replies "Of course, I'm a huge fan. It stands for Boston Motor Works".. I now have to convince the people at the airport to ride on horses for when he comes over by plane.
I've had a couple of american be disappointed that Amsterdam isn't some kind of themepark and it's not as crazy as they thought. There was also disappointment that no one wore clogs. (Some farmers actually still do so if you wanna see some visit a dairy farm) I did give them some pointers for some nice bisros and good stuff to do so I hope they had a good time but the initial (and I suppose quite American) perception of the outside world seem really detached.
My US college classmate : "Oh you're Thai. Which part of Taiwan are you from?" 🤣😂
"that was years ago" ... Yeah, it's only gotten worse since
I was in a hotel where they had a sign "Americans please do not shit into bidet"
When I was deployed in Macedonia and Kosovo we were on a base with the US 82nd airborne. Most didn't know where the Netherlands is. The easiest way to explain it was to ask if they knew Amsterdam, wich surprisingly they all knew, and that it's the capital of the Netherlands. Or I just said it's the country surrounding Amsterdam
It's actually not, the capital of Netherlands is Hague. it is the same as to say that the capital of USA is New York :)
@@vakhv2493 Uhm... Amsterdam is the capital of the Netherlands since it was changed in the constitution of 1983. The Hague is the governing city of the Netherlands.
damn, it is..., and i am not American...i mean i am, but to US american :) In my defense I learned Geography before 1983 :) @@MarcelL-DM
@@vakhv2493 I give you major props for even knowing 👌🏽 It's weird to me that most Americans don't learn about the Dutch influence. Our history is so intertwined. From New Amsterdam to US independence to our current relation.
why wouldn't I know??? I got my education in Europe :) And i've been in Amsterdam - only for two days, but still :) as I said - my knowledge is shamefully rusted. But again, i still remember the times when Zimbabwe was called Rodesia and Congo was called Zaire:)@@MarcelL-DM
I just to work in a little restaurant and I was the only one that know how to speak english, when americans sit down, they start to ask why everything is always in spanish and why we don't speak english, and I was used to it so I say "Well is because we are in Chile, and this is part of latin america", But the best was when some american ask me how much time takes to drive to germany, they think that we are next to germany because por the word Kuchen (a germany word for cake, that in Chile became a type of pie because of the old germany colonies in the south of the country) and also because we eat bread (idk why Chile dosn't appear in english list of bread consuption per capita, because we eat like 98 kilograms/216 lbs, what are more that many countries in that list)
Actually, there were Concentration Camps in Germany...
the vast majority was in germany, about 50. Compared to half a dozen in poland. One of the biggest and most famous one's was in Poland, but the guy still was confidently incorrect
As an American this had me face palm. OMG. I do have one I lost my drivers license. So I take my birth certificate to the DMV, I was born in Missouri and now live in Ohio. The girl told me I had to have an Ohio birth certificate. I said no I wasn't born there she kept telling me yes you do and I could over to the title office and have it transferred. I was so ticked and told her I wasn't an F*ing vehicle. Left and went to another one. How do these people get jobs?
I love how you stick up for the Americans, trying to give every one the benefit of the doubt. However, there comes a point, where you will realize, especially outside the US, that this is the normal state of affairs. Sad, but true. But you are learning. Hope it is not too depressing and you find some positive things soon 🙂 Even if the things you find out are obvious to anyone outside the US, you are not, so keep doing what you do, it can only benefit you, probably in a life outside the US in the not so distant future.
But I had Florida natives in my time as a kid there who believed that Miami is the capital, when you point out it is not (you just learned in school) they say, of course they know that it is Washington D.C. Doh
Its universally painful to have someone who has no idea what they're talking about try to 'correct' you.
You can't make it up, so many thick people in the USA.
They think "thick" means something else, though 🥺
omg this was so funny...! And your reactions were priceless. 😀
I’ve witnessed Americans denying the existence of my nation because of gun control 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Try this on
I'm from south africa. And ppl from america still ask me If I have lions walking around.??????????
And how suprised I can speak english
That is a bit funny. But mostly just sad. Greetings from Norway.
LOL @6:48 you're developing a tick your eye is starting to twitch from the stupid
I used to go to Florida in the winter, now I go to Cuba, it feels safer.
I was in PA (Pennsylvania) and was asked twice if UK celebrates Independence day, to which I replied both times, "Who were you getting Independent from?". The first time I was told that it was celebrated in France, "But 10 days later". That's Bastille Day. Oh and to help you skip along, the yawn was at about 10:14 on the video.
There are people everywhere across the world who can dumb and say stupid things BUT I do have to say there is a difference towards the Americans though. We all know not all Americans are that stupid but compared to others the questions and statements are often very mind blowing and sometimes embarrassing tbh. Some things are seen as common knowledge across the world and it is crazy to me and probably to other people how big a lack of education can be and then you also see how closed off the US is to the rest of the world.
Education is one thing, but being that selfcentered is another one. Sometimes its funny though how arrogantly ignorant they can be towards other people.
One of the most common things are when some Americans whine how they cant pay in Dollars in a foreign country which has another currency.
I am from Croatia, Europe.... and some who know about us still think we are a war zone....our war that sadly happened ended almost 30 years ago. And when they come here they are so surprised...I am more like if you think this is a war zone why would you go somewhere assuming there is a war anyway.
The most fun thing though is you can make shit up and a lot of them will actually believe you 🙈
After I told an American that I was English, he said, in all seriousness "Your English is very good for someone not from America." (!!)
As a Swiss, I lost counts to the times people asked me if I spoke Swedish!?
As a Swede I've been told that in Sweden we speak German and French. Now sure, that's just a mix up and I explained it to that person and this is where it gets really bad. He would not give up, he insisted. This was before the days of the Internet so no whipping out your phone and showing them either.
This is one of the worst things about many Americans, the complete inability to ever admit that you are wrong.
@@michaelmay5453 Very true!
I given up saying I'm from Sweden (because of the Swiss/Swedish mixups), so I just state that I'm from Scandinavia.
@@rickardelimaa That's smart!
The American media has a lot to answer for, while visiting the US I didn’t see any news about other countries unless an American died or something. World news is a thing the greatest news service in the world is based in Europe and everything doesn’t revolve around Washington or New York